Water-elevator



(No Model.)

' M. STEVENS.

WATER ELEVATOR. No. 375,215. Patented Dec. 20, 1887.

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' UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MONROE STEVENS, OF SHELLMAN, GEORGIA.

"WATER-ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,215, dated December 20, 1887.

Application filed October 25, 1886. SeriaLNo. 217,150. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Mormon STEVENS, of Shellman, in the county of Randolph and State of Georgia, have invented anew and Improved \Vater-Elevator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an apparatus for elevating water especially adapted for use with wells, and has for its object to so elevate the water in a proper bucket as that when the said bucket has reached its highestpoint it will be automatically engaged bya hinged chute, and the water automatically emptied-through the bottom of said bucket into said chute, the entire operation being quickly and easily carried out through the medium of an ordinary wind lass.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly sectional, of my water-elevator, with the bucket in the well. Fig. 2 is acentral vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through line 3 y of Fig. 2, illustrating the bucket and chute elevated to discharge the water; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the valve used in connection with the well-bucket.

In the construction of my water-elevator the well 1 may be provided with acurb, 2, side bar, 3, and an ordinary tower, 4, having apulley, 5, pivoted-in the top bar thereof. At therear of the tower 4, within the projecting arms of the side bars, 3, a drum,6, may be pivoted, operated, preferably, by a crank in connection with a ratchet and pawl. Upon the outer face of one of the side bars, 3, I usually pivot a handlever, 7, which may be such as shown in the drawings, purposed to engage at one end the shaft of said drum, to control the rapid descent of the bucket 8, which is connected thereto by a rope, adapted to pass over the pulley 5,above mentioned. v

To the rear upright of the tower 4 I attach a transverse beam, 9, and hinge thereto a bar,

'10, provided with a central slot, 11, and a below the said transverse bar 9 I attach to the opposite or front uprights of the tower a transverse supporting-bar, 13,which bar is adapted to receive and sustain the end of the said hinged slotted bar 10, when the bucket is in the well, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. the rear of its slot 11, I hinge a guide'bar, 14, provided with a slot, 15, extending nearly to its forward end, and friction-rollers 16, at-

tached to the upper face thereof. Through the central slot, 11, of the hinged bar 10, and also through the slot 15 of the hinged guidebar 14, the rope carrying the bucket 8 is made to pass in a direct line from the pulley 5, the said rope being fitted with a button, 17, over its connection with the bail of said bucket.

To the inner side of thewell-curb at the top centrally its front portion I hinge a chute, 18, from the under side thereof at such a point near the center as that it will turn inward of its own weight parallel with the said curb, yet need but slight exertion to raise the said chute to an inclined horizontal position over the curb. I now connect the chute 18 with the swivelhook 12 of the hinged slotted bar 10 by means of a chain, 19, attached to said chute near its pivotal point, the said chain being of a length as much greater than the dis tance from its point of attachment to the chute when in a vertical position and the end of said swivel-hook 12, when the slotted bar 10 rests upon its supporting-bar 13, as maybe required to obtain a proper inclination of the chute when raised horizontally; The bottom of the bucket 8 is made with a central aperture, 20, having hinged thereto a valve, 21, covering said aperture, the said valve being provided with four openings, 22, therein located, preferably one at each corner of a rectangle formed on said valve, and a rectangular groove, 23, upon the under side thereof, connecting with said openings 22. The entire lower face of the valve is adapted to receive a covering, 24, of an elastic material-such as rubber or thin leather-through which covering a pin, 25,attached centrally to said valve, projects, the said pin 25 being of a length sufficient to allow the same to extend through and beyond the central .aperture, 20, in the bottom of said bucket. V

The object of constructing the valve with Beneath this hinged slotted bar 10, to

the openings and grooves is to permit the wa ter to press directly upon the elastic covering and hold it firmly on the bottom of the bucket. They also permit the elastic material to be held on the bottom of the bucket with suffi-' eient pressure to prevent leakage should a pebble or other obstruction get under the valve.

" In operation,when the bucket is in the well, as shown in Fig. 1., it is elevated by means of a windlass in the usual manner. Vhen the button 17, above the hail of the bucket, comes in contact with the end of the hinged guidebar 14,it raises the same,which,as it is pressed upward,earries the bucket through its contact with the rope supporting the same as it ascends over toward the front of the curb,where the chute 18 is pivoted. In the further process of ascension, as the button 17 causes the guide-bar to assume a horizontal position and engage the hinged slotted bar 10, the said bar is also carried upward. At this point the bucket is no longer guided forward, as the rope now engaging the rear end of the slot 15 of the guide-bar 14., which is in position parallel with thefront end of slot 11 of the hinged bar 10, has but limited play between the two. As the two hinged bars are carried together still farther upward, the chain 19 is tightened and the chute elevated under and in line with the bottom of the bucket, following the same up nntil,by the tightening of the connectingchain, the chute is brought to its proper inclined horizontal position, (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in positive lines Fig. 3,) whereupon the bucket S rests upon the face of the said chute, near the rear, and as the pin 25 of the bucket S strikes the face of the chute the valve 21 in the bottom of said bucket is oted chute or trough, aslotted hinged bar, 10, v

connected to said chute or trough, and a slotted guide-bar, 14, hinged to the under side of the bar 10 at the rear of the slot therein, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. Inawater-elevator,tl1ecombination,with

a well-curbing, a tower above the same, and a well-bucketandits operating-rope, of the eh ute or trough 18, hinged to the curbing, the bar 10, provided with the slot 1.1 and hinged to the tower, the chain 19, connected to the free end of the bar 10 and to the chute or trough, and the guide-bar 14, provided with the slot 15 and the frietion-rollers 16 and hinged to the under side of the bar 10 at the rear of its slot, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a water-elevator, a bucket provided with an aperture, 20,in its bottom, and avalve, 21, hinged over said aperture, the said valve having a central projecting pin, 25, apertures 22, a rectangular groove, 23, in its under side, and a flexible bottom covering, 24, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose herein set forth.

MONROE STEVENS.

\Vi t nesses:

WM. K. PILSBURY, B. F. Oums'rrn. 

